£ 250,000 "Sebring" Grantura

[Warwick67]

Wow have a look at this, Sebring Grantura for sale - TVR makes the financial big time. Will it sell for anything like this?....

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewIte...

[THREEFISHORANGE]

Bargain !!

[Fiscracer]

Thanks, I like a good laugh.

[Moto]

I laughed when I saw the first photo. But when I saw it as it is now!!!

[TVR_owner]

I'll chance 7k

[jellison]

Totally daft.

Big deal so it has a bit of history.

No one would spend even a 3rd of that on it - just think what proper fast historic stuff you can get for that. Might even get a T70.

[Fiscracer]

Quite right Jon although I'm afraid you wouldn't get a T70 for £250k add a £100k or so.......Minshaw's MkIIIb went for £850k

You might get a nice Atilla (which is faster than a MkI T70) with period history all ready to go for about that

[jellison]

Fiscracer said:

Quite right Jon although I'm afraid you wouldn't get a T70 for £250k add a £100k or so.......Minshaw's MkIIIb went for £850k

You might get a nice Atilla (which is faster than a MkI T70) with period history all ready to go for about that

Let me think it over!

[Warwick67]

Hmmm,

This one has been for sale at £80k for ages now, so I guess its just too pricey

http://www.classiccarsforsale.co.uk/classic-car-pa...

Plus there are a few projects advertised, 1 at £6.5k

Tough call £6.5k or £250k, how much for some history & the ends of a couple of stripes?

[Moto]

Warwick67 said:

Hmmm,

how much for some history & the ends of a couple of stripes?

Do you think I could pay Schumacher, Moss & Mansell to drive my Vixen around a track few times,then sell the Vixen with a history and clear a healthy profit?

[dryden]

If you scroll to the bottom of the ad, it gives payment instructions of £25,000. A tad more reasonable!
However, the invoice, delivered as provenance, is flawed! Check out the date, the Americans reversed the month/day after 911, unless there was 15 months in 1963 I would say this is untrue!
Ho Hum.....

[vixen1700]

dryden said:

If you scroll to the bottom of the ad, it gives payment instructions of £25,000.

Then the balance within 5 days...

[thegamekeeper]

dryden said:

If you scroll to the bottom of the ad, it gives payment instructions of £25,000. A tad more reasonable!
However, the invoice, delivered as provenance, is flawed! Check out the date, the Americans reversed the month/day after 911, unless there was 15 months in 1963 I would say this is untrue!
Ho Hum.....

Are you sure about that?

[dryden]

Sure of the habit. I have some invoices from an American company dated in ,99 and 2000, these all have conventional dates. All post 911, or 11/9..............Seem to reverse.
If I was interested in buying this car I would investigate this.

[Slow M]

dryden said:

If you scroll to the bottom of the ad, it gives payment instructions of £25,000. A tad more reasonable!
However, the invoice, delivered as provenance, is flawed! Check out the date, the Americans reversed the month/day after 911, unless there was 15 months in 1963 I would say this is untrue!
Ho Hum.....

It is (and has been for a very long time) the norm, in the USA, to write the date as MO/DY/YR. To Americans, there is no reversal on that document, no flaw. I don't understand your reference to 911.

Best,
B.

[thegamekeeper]

TVR_owner said:

I'll chance 7k

Nice try John but just £168,000 shy of the (unsuccessful) high offer. Anyone want to buy 3 pre 65 FIA elligible TVR,s, all with period race history? Where should we start? £400,000 and I,ll throw in free roundels, a 1965 289 Hi Po engine and a 1622 MGA engine (both fully rebuilt)? May consider club racing "M" Series car in px.

Edited by thegamekeeper on Saturday 28th January 16:58

[TVR_owner]

thegamekeeper said:

Nice try John but just £168,000 shy of the (unsuccessful) high offer. Anyone want to buy 3 pre 65 FIA elligible TVR,s, all with period race history? Where should we start? £400,000 and I,ll throw in free
roundels, a 1965 289 Hi Po engine and a 1622 MGA engine (both fully rebuilt)? May consider club racing "M"
Series car in px.

Edited by on Saturday 28th January 16:58

Guess when we meet next time you'll be a millionaire then Rodney, and I'll be a pleb living the dream out racing his stty club 3000M. Safe in the knowledge it's worth what I paid for it and should i have problems with it, I have 7k in the kitty to fix it...who knows I may find it has some history and in another 20 years it may even be worth twice what it cost...

[DonkeyApple]

Moto said:

Do you think I could pay Schumacher, Moss & Mansell to drive my Vixen around a track few times,then sell the Vixen with a history and clear a healthy profit?

This used to keep retired drivers in beer money and probably still does.

We had a few cars over the years which we had Lanfranchi or Marshall take class wins in before sending to auction.

[Moto]

thegamekeeper said:

... just £168,000 shy of the (unsuccessful) high offer.

Edited by thegamekeeper on Saturday 28th January 16:58

First thought.... did someone really offer £145k !! Gulp.

Second thought.... did someone really turn down £145k !! Nahh surely not

[thegamekeeper]

Moto said:

thegamekeeper said:

... just £168,000 shy of the (unsuccessful) high offer.

Edited by thegamekeeper on Saturday 28th January 16:58

First thought.... did someone really offer £145k !! Gulp.

Second thought.... did someone really turn down £145k !! Nahh surely not

No, some one didn,t offer £145k, £7k + £168k = £175k and yes apparently someone did and yes apparently someone did!